Worldwide increasing rates of depression have brought considerable global health challenges, for which further prevention and treatment countermeasures are urgently needed. More in detail, between 1990 and 2019, the global prevalence of major depression increased with 10.2% in children and adolescents (<20 years) resulting in an agestandardized rate of 693.5 per 100,000 in 2019. [...]
Philippot, A., Bleyenheuft, Y., Dubois, V., Tecco, J. M., Van Damme, T., & Vancampfort, D. (2024). On the road to exercise as medicine for depressive symptoms in young people. Translational pediatrics, 13(7), 1279-1282. https://doi.org/10.21037/tp-24-152 (Original work published 2024)